Yash and Sachi Maniar in India’s Mid-Day

A battle against plastic, November 2014

“The high point of our talk with Yash Maniar comes right in the middle, when the conversation veers towards toothbrushes. “The dentist asks us to change our toothbrush once in three months,” points out Yash, while trying to explain the mind-boggling amount of waste that human beings produce. “So that is four toothbrushes per person, every year. Multiply that with the number of people who do this,” he adds, thus effectively making his point.”

“The 24-year-old entrepreneur is co-founder of Shunya Alternatives which, true to its name, offers products made out of biodegradable material such as sugarcane fibre, which poses no harm to the environment.”